For the fourth time in a row, the largest and most comprehensive conference on the Fehmarnbelt Corridor is on the move. This year’s Swedish host team is Region Skåne and the City of Malmö welcoming us on May 28 and 29 at Malmö Live to join transport ministers, mayors, business representatives, researchers and the interested public alike.

With both Danish Transport Minister Ole Birk Olesen,
Schleswig-Holstein's Transport Minister Bernd Buchholz and both
Mayors Olaf Scholz of Hamburg and Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh of
Malmö as well as Henrik Fritzon, Chair of the Regional Council of
Region Skåne, attending the Fehmarnbelt Days 2018.

Host and Mayor of Malmö Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh is looking
forward to welcoming participants from Germany, Denmark, Norway -
and Sweden and beyond, of course:

"The Fehmarnbelt Days provide a great opportunity for
participants to learn more about what this region has to offer. The
Malmö and Skåne region are Sweden's gateway into the rest of
Scandinavia. As a cross-border region we have great knowledge and
experience, through the Öresund Bridge, as to what a fixed link
which connects countries can do for the people living in the area
in terms of integration, employment, connectivity, tourism,
academia, and regional development. At the Fehrmanbelt Days we look
forward to further exploring the opportunities that the Fehmarnbelt
link provides for northern Europe", the mayor states.

Conference theme: Tomorrow´s
Connections

2018's focus is on how implementing the right strategies can
create better conditions for responsible growth, promote skills and
cooperation. Head of the Fehmarnbelt Days Secretariat Stefan Rehm
explains:

"We want to explore how the emerging region from Hamburg to the
Öresund area and beyond up to Oslo uses its potential now and in
the future with the coming Fehmarnbelt Tunnel. The connection by
the Öresund Bridge and the Fehmarn Link will also have an impact on
culture, tourism, scientific cooperation, city networks and of
course transports and logistics."

As the previous conferences, the Fehmarnbelt Days is a biennial
conference focusing on issues, ideas and possibilities within
logistics, transportation & infrastructure, construction,
sustainable development, innovation & green growth, culture
& creative industries, education, research and science, labour
market and tourism. In short: All the areas we are good at and
could excel in through more cooperation! The name of the game is
narrowing in on the possibilities within the Fehmarnbelt Corridor
from Hamburg in the south, over eastern Denmark and crossing the
Öresund to southern Sweden and Oslo region.

This year's main conference will be hosted by the Fehmarnbelt
Business Council Conference and will investigate how transport and
logistics solutions can work as a motor for responsible growth in
the corridor.

Ministers to meet

The Danish Transport Minister Ole Birk Olesen and Swedish
Infrastructure Minister Tomas Eneroth have both already confirmed
their participation for the Fehmarnbelt Days 2018 as has Minister
of Transport Bernd Buchholz from Schleswig-Holstein and Mayors of
both Hamburg and Malmö are attending, showing strong support across
all three nations. Pat Cox from the EU commission is also expected
to attend.

Danish Transport Minister Ole Birk Olesen says:

"Because I appreciate the many efforts to strengthen the
co-operation in the Fehmarnbelt Corridor and to prepare the using
of the new opportunities of having a fixed link across the
Fehmarnbelt, I am looking forward to participating in the
Fehmarnbelt Days 2018 in Malmö and in the panel discussion between
ministers for transport".

Private partners

The partners behind the conference are, besides the hosts of
Region Skåne and the City of Malmo, the Fehmarnbelt Committee,
Fehmarnbelt Business Council, Femern A/S and STRING.

For the second-time round, the organizers of the Fehmarnbelt
Days 2018 have offered private companies, organisations, networks
or projects to become a partner of the Fehmarnbelt Days to partake
with their own events such as workshops, seminars or conferences
within the context of the joint forum. As of now, there are already
15 activity partners with more on the way.

Facts:

• 28/29 May 2018, Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live,
Malmö, Sweden

• 6 organizers

• 15 activity partners

• One common single track conference day (28.05)

• One session/seminar/conference day with 24 session slots
reserved so far (29.05.)

• 14 exhibitors

• 2 sponsors

• Side program planned:

• Excursion trip from Germany to Sweden on Sunday (Femern
A/S)

• Pop-up event at the networking village regarding the Fixed
Link (Femern A/S)

• Public outreach: Jumping Castle in the city centre of Malmö
(Femern A/S)

STRING is a political cross-border partnership between Akershus County and Østfold County in Norway, Region Halland, Region Västra Götaland, Region Skåne and the City of Malmö in Sweden, the City of Copenhagen, the Capital Region of Denmark and Region Zealand in Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and the City of Hamburg and in Germany.